♕ 020 { i read the signs ; i got all my stars aligned }

[moirae]

[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: hallie.
AGE: eighteen.
JOURNAL: moirae.
IM: maidoftime@aim.
E-MAIL: a.halcyon.queen@gmail.
RETURNING: xuffasch.

[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Donna Troy.
FANDOM: DC Comics.
CHRONOLOGY: Justice League of America Vol 3 Issue 58.
CLASS: Hero; she'll likely keep the tags.
SUPERHERO NAME: n/a; she's gone by other monikers in the past, but now just goes by her full name.
ALTER EGO: Donna Troy, photographer.

BACKGROUND:
► origins. In times long-since past, the five Olympian goddesses of Greek myth created the island of Themyscira as a haven for the souls of women slayed by men. Given immortality, strength, and peace away from what would be referred to as “the Patriarch’s World,” these women would become known as the Amazons. Queen of these women is Hippolyta, who often longed for a child. One night, under the Hunter’s Moon, she created a daughter from clay, and she was given life by the gods. This daughter would become known as Diana, Princess of Themyscira. A sorceress named Magala took pity on Diana, who would grow up with no other children, and created from her soul and reflection a copy-it is this copy that would eventually become Donna Troy. However, things did not go entirely as planned. An entity known as the Dark Angel kidnapped Donna, mistaking her for Diana, and forced her to live out countless tragic lives as a cruel form of torture.

Not knowing any of this, Donna was born into a life on modern earth to a woman named Dorothy Hinckley, who died soon after giving Donna up for adoption. She was then adopted by a coupled called the Staceys; when Carl Stacey died, Fay Stacy decided to put Donna up for adoption again. However, as an infant, Donna was caught in an apartment fire. Who rescued her from the fire is a bit unclear-some say it was Diana, others Hippolyta-but eventually it was shown that Donna’s savior was none other than the goddess Rhea, one of the Titans of Myth and precursors to the Olympian gods. Donna was then taken to the planet of New Chronus, where she was raised as the child of Phoebe and Coeus as one of the “twelve Titan seeds”-children of various races who had been gathered to be the “hope” of the Titans. Each child was named after a place that worshiped the Titans-Athens, Sparta, etc.-and so it was at this point that Troy became Donna’s surname.

At the age of thirteen, Donna was returned to Earth and her memories of New Chronus were replaced with stock memories of a normal childhood. However, she still had powers-legacies of her unknown Amazon and Titan heritages-and she was eventually inspired to become Wonder Girl.

► wonder girl. Retcons are really confusing in regard to Donna’s early time as Wonder Girl. Initially, she has been living on Themyscira for a few years as Diana’s sister when she follows Wonder Woman into Man’s World and becomes Wonder Girl; resets of Diana’s timeline make this course of events improbable, however. Several retcons later, and things become more confusing. Donna likely was taken to Themyscira by Diana around age thirteen, and became Wonder Girl a year or so later. Suffice to say that in her early teens, Donna began operating as Wonder Girl, and would eventually be taken on as Wonder Woman’s protégée. She would eventually meet Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Speedy, and the five young sidekicks would form the first incarnation of all-teen team, the Teen Titans. Donna, in fact, is the one who named the Titans, taking the name from a residual memory from her time on New Chronus.

Donna’s time on the Titans forms the core of most of her relationships and personality. Dick Grayson, also known as Robin and Nightwing, is her best friend, and Roy Harper (Speed, Red Arrow, Arsenal), was her first boyfriend. Eventually, four others would join the team-Gar Logan (Beast Boy, Changeling), Rachel Roth (Raven), Vic Stone (Cyborg), and Koriand’r (Starfire). Of these, Starfire would become one of Donna’s closest friends, although all of the Titans formed a sort of pseudo-family unit for one another. In between fighting crime as Wonder Girl, Donna would attend college, get a job as a fashion photographer, and fall in love with a college professor named Terry Long. On the eve of her marriage to Terry, Donna would finally discover the origins of her human past, and get back in touch with the Stacey family.

Donna was always a staple of the team, taking charge when Nightwing was elsewhere, and even leading a mission with Jason Todd, the second Robin. The most notable thing about this period is that Donna shifts from wearing a red, white and blue outfit similar to Diana’s and instead gets red suit with black boots and stars! Also she starts wearing her hair down.

► troia. Donna was reunited with the Titans of Myth when the goddess Phoebe came to Earth to find her. The Titans were under attack, and they needed the Seeds’ help. However, after giving Donna back her memories, Phoebe dies, having spent all of her energy to escape New Chronus. The Teen Titans are then transported to New Chronus, where one of the Seeds, Sparta, has gone mad and killed the others. Only Athyns and Donna remain, and they eventually defeat Sparta and rescue the Titans of Myth. Upon returning to Earth, Donna decides to take the name Troia (the equivalent of her Titan name, Troy) as a new superhero moniker. At this point she cuts her hair and starts wearing her black star-field outfit in honor of the Titans.

Later on, Donna becomes pregnant. A group of future Titans visit and claim that Donna’s son will grow up to become Lord Chaos, a villain. Donna, in order to prevent this, gives up her powers. Robert Long is born as a normal human boy, with none of his mother’s supernatural powers. Later on, Donna joined a group of inter-galactic police known as the Dark Stars, and using the powers gained from this rejoined the Titans.

After some time, Terry divorced Donna, claiming that her vigilante activity put their family in danger. He was granted full custody of their son. After this, Donna began a relationship with Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. However, when Terry and Bobby were killed in a car accident, Donna left Kyle. Apparently, all of this was significantly tragic that the terms of Dark Angel’s curse were fulfilled, and Donna was forced to start another tragic life. Everyone but Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and Wally West, the Flash, had no memory of her. Wonder Woman, Wally and Hippolyta eventually broke the curse, saved Donna, and ended her cycle of tragic lives. Hippolyta officially adopts Donna at this point, as her origin as the copy of Diana is revealed.

► death & rebirth. The Titans grow up, as all people tend to do after some time. Everyone gets better fashion sense, and eventually Donna passes on the mantle of Wonder Girl to a girl named Cassandra Sandsmark, the daughter of Zeus. Donna would become a mentor to Cassie, whom she saw as another sister. When Cassie and Donna’s teams, Young Justice and the Titans, came together, the results were tragic, however. In a confrontation with a misbegotten Superman clone, Donna and fellow-Titan Lilith were both killed (but no one really cared about Lilith, which is pretty sad). Everyone is sad about Donna, and her death causes both the Teen Titans and Young Justice to disband.

However, guess who comes back? It turns out that the Titans of Myth had another trick up their sleeve. They recalled Donna’s soul, and she was reborn as the new Goddess of the Moon (taking the late Phoebe’s place as Coeus’ wife). These gods, however, are not all benevolent, and turn out to be murdering entire planets to serve their own ends. The Outsiders (notably including Starfire, Nightwing, and Arsenal) and the new Teen Titans (Wonder Girl, Kid Flash) are eventually brought into space, where they find a brainwashed and war-crazed Donna. They eventually help her remember who she is, defeat the Titans of Myth, and go home.

At this point, it is revealed that Donna is the key to the Multiverse, since she remembers all of her many incarnations. She becomes the guardian of New Chronus, and Diana gives her an orb that allows her to see the future. Donna, at this point, has largely dropped the name “Troia,” and goes simply by Donna Troy. She never really bothered with a secret identity, even when she had codenames, and this is something she sometimes regrets, because there is no separation between the different spheres of her life.

► titans and crises. Amidst various events and an ever-lower neckline, Donna takes a group of heroes to New Chronus during the Infinite Crisis to heal a rip in space. Things go horribly wrong, people die, it’s a big mess. In the aftermath, Donna uses Harbinger’s orb to keep watch on the future. After Wonder Woman kills Maxwell Lord and takes a year off, Donna picks up the slack as the new Wonder Woman. It’s actually kind of sad because no one takes her very seriously, constantly referring to her as Donna instead of Wonder Woman and asking when the real hero would show up. Eventually, Donna is captured by Circe, and Diana is forced out of hiding to save her. Then Donna goes back to being just Donna. Shortly after this, Donna helps Diana fight Genocide, only to have her mind rattled by him. She believed Diana responsible for Terry and Bobbie’s deaths, and attacked her sister in an epic battle, until Diana was able to cure her. Then Donna helps rescue Hippolyta while Diana defeats the rebel Amazons and tells the gods to stop being lame.

Then Donna goes on another adventure with Kyle, and there is awkward romantic tension even though neither of them is really interested anymore. But everyone knows that Donna’s hugs are the best, and that is what Kyle gets when his mom dies. Upon her return, Donna helps the new Titans defeat Deathstroke, and then is creeped on by Jason Todd for about ten issues while he investigates Duella Dent’s death. Then the Amazons attack Washington, and Donna tries to intervene but is largely ineffective. Then there are some fun adventures through space as Donna, Kyle, and Ray Palmer decide to keep watch on the 52 incarnations of the Monitor. Eventually Donna comes back to Earth, and the old Titans reconvene in order to defeat the children of Trigon. The original nine of them hang out in Titans Tower for a while, but it becomes clearer and clearer that their minds are all elsewhere. Half of them are in the Justice League, half of them have families…they aren’t teenagers anymore, and though they still love each other, it isn’t really working.

And then everything just goes completely to hell. During Blackest Night, Donna gets the awesome experience of seeing her dead husband and child, being infected by her baby, and then crushing said baby’s skull in order to defeat him. She becomes a Black Lantern, then the Black Lanterns are defeated, everyone goes home happy. Donna floats around a bit, ends up chilling out with Starfire in a pool for five issues, and then witnesses Prometheus’s attack on Star City and Roy Harper. She is among those who finds Lian Harper’s body, and stays with Roy while he is comatose.

► justice league. Donna’s life had reached a rather bleak standstill. On a trip to New York to rebury her son’s remains, Donna is given a pep-talk by Diana. Diana is leaving the Justice League, and wants Donna to take her place. This gives Donna a new sense of purpose, so she does. She also recruits past-Titans Cyborg, Starfire, and Dick Grayson (now Batman) to join with her. Starfire eventually leaves Earth, however, and Roy Harper rips into Donna something fierce at the funeral of his daughter. (Seriously, Roy, that was just mean). So things aren’t perfect. But the Justice League does give Donna direction again. Several adventures occur, and eventually the League takes on Eclipso. Apparently Donna, and her personal tragedies, are the keys to defeating him, but before this can be acted on he stabs her through the chest. Welp.

PERSONALITY:
Donna is a woman whose life has handed her tragedy after tragedy, and the way she deals with this is largely by focusing on others rather than herself. She’s known for being the den mother of the Teen Titans; the voice of reason and calm, who is in touch with emotions but not purely ruled by them. As Wonder Girl, she is shown to be giving, open, excitable and fun-loving. She is curious and understanding, direct and take-charge when the situation requires. However, she is not without her faults. She is shown to be stubborn and impulsive, and tends to make judgments fairly quickly. She usually trusts her instincts, and this can be both a good and bad thing. However, despite this, she can be forgiving and generous with people, except when it comes to those who hurt those she’s closest to (an example that comes to mind is her rage at Prometheus, who killed Lian and maimed Roy).

As an Amazon, the second daughter of Themyscira, Donna has the ideology and training of her people heavily ingrained. This has a large impact on the way she behaves and acts. She’s a woman who puts a lot of store in honor and sisterhood; she believes in acting with poise and regality. There’s a lot of ceremony and formality to the way she addresses people, but these things also fall away fairly quickly when she’s around people she knows and enjoys being with. However, as an Amazon she is also a fierce warrior. This can be an asset, but lately it seems to be Donna’s default function-she is vicious in her treatment of her opponents, and seems to be using physical retaliation as a way to hide from her more personal problems. She has a warrior’s heart and enjoys a fight. Her ferocity in battle is almost incongruous with the more emotive parts of her personality, but they all likely stem from deep passion which seems to fuel a lot of Donna’s personality.

Employed as a photographer for a large portion of her life, Donna also has a heavily artistic side. She is certainly more emotional than logical, and appeals more to feelings than technical logic. Donna is often seen as the shoulder to cry on, and she doesn’t seem to mind this role. She has no problems giving advice, talking things out, or distracting people as she sees the need. She’s perceptive to people’s emotions, and likes supporting them in that way. What she doesn’t like is when the tables are turned on her. At one point, Nightwing asks her why she doesn’t talk to Diana about her problems, and she deflects, asking him why he doesn’t discuss things with Batman. This type of thing is typical from her; she’s not shy about discussing her emotions, but she does seem to avoid actually attempting to delve into certain things (such as her son’s death, her sense of inadequacy concerning Diana, etc).

In regards to personal relationships, Donna seems to be hit or miss. With people like Dick and Kory, and the rest of the Titans, she is intimate friendships that have lasted years. On the other hand, her relationships with Terry, Roy, and Kyle all ended badly, though she was eventually able to reconcile with Roy and Kyle. Donna puts a lot of store in her relationships. Her sister Diana is perhaps the closest person to her, but whenever questions of jealousy and inadequacy come up, Diana is always who Donna thinks of. She compares herself to her sister more than anyone else, and though others hardly ever draw the comparison, she always is, even if it’s subconsciously. Her time as Wonder Woman hardly alleviated these concerns, especially since Diana ended up having to rescue her. If she’s honest with herself, Diana is the chink in her armor. She loves her sister to death, but harbors a lot of unresolved feelings when it comes to her.

Ultimately, Donna is a focused and caring person, who likes dealing with other people’s problems more than her own. She’s always around to be the support system for people, likes bringing people together but doesn’t like being in charge, and has been hardened by the tragedies of her life.

POWER:
► wonder powers. Also known as Amazonian skills and gifts from the Titans of Myths. These are abilities that Donna shares with Diana; flight, increased strength and speed. However, while Diana's gifts are from the Olympian gods, Donna's come from the Titans of Myth. Also, inherent to Amazons is essentially heightened stamina and durability, which renders Amazons almost immortal unless killed outright in battle. Donna isn't entirely invulnerable, but she is sturdier than most. This endurance is less than Kryptonian levels.

► lasso of persuasion. Donna's principle weapon is a blue lasso that has the power of persuasion. If anyone is caught in the lasso, they have to obey Donna as long as her will is stronger than theirs.

[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: ( As the video starts, Donna’s rueful smile is the first thing visible. She’s sitting outside a café somewhere, nursing an iced tea. She tilts her head to one side as she examines the communicator. )

It is very like New York, I’ll give it that. I mean, I’m not overly attached to the city, but it’s a bit strange how it’s slightly off, don’t you think? Ah, well. I guess it keeps us vigilant, right? And isn’t that why we’re here?

You know, if this world was in such desperate need of heroes, whoever’s in charge could have just asked. I know more than a few people who’d have no problem world-hopping in order to help out, or even for the sake of a little adventure. Hell, I was one of them. And if I’m being totally honest, I guess I’d say I still am. I wouldn’t have flat out refused to help.

So it’s a bit rude that we weren’t even given an option and just grabbed out of nowhere. But everyone does what they have to do, right?

Oh, where are my manners-the name’s Donna, Donna Troy. There’s really not much point using a code name, since I’ve been wandering around the city like this all day.

( She laughs a bit, and gestures down at her outfit, which is her customary star-specked ensemble. )

So, anything else I should know? Anyone I know here? I’d like to think I’m fairly well-versed with heroes.

LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
► “I can feel a bright energy in one of you, and not like Starman’s or Alan’s, important though they are. One of you has endured so much. More than any of us. And that person has been changed from everything they’ve been through. Death. Resurrection. The death of loved ones. One of you…Donna.”

Well. What was one supposed to say to that, exactly? She was used to holding a lot of weight on her shoulders, used to life and death situations. But even in situations where she had had a specific task or role, no one had ever articulated it quite like this, before. In this case, it sounded as though no one else was even capable of doing what needed to be done. And that worried her, more than a bit. Was she frightened, as well? There wasn’t enough time to even think about it. All Donna knew was that she was stunned. And feeling so made her defensive.

Her first response was to deny. “Don’t make me out to be more than I am.” Her voice was even, her manner demure, but inside a million thoughts were rolling around in her head. She didn’t even want to be special, let alone the key to all this. If she could do something to help, to defeat Eclipso, of course she’d be more than willing to do it. But to be the one it all rested on? It was unsettling, to say the least.

It was these same thoughts on her mind a little while later, as she stared into that fierce, blank red glare. For a moment, the weight of the world seemed to surround her. In the next, Donna tossed it all from her mind as she threw the first punch. She grabbed him, and together they hit the earth. In another moment, she had unwound her lasso was binding him with it. In battle, there was no room for thought. There were brief flashes of pain when you were struck, moments of indecision as you decided what to do next, but essentially, there was just adrenaline, and emotion.

She embraced it. She grit her teeth swung hard, expecting it to be a hard battle, but one she could handle. She expected-

Anything but this. She barely had time to think as the blade pierced her flesh and the blood began pooling. She had not been expecting this.

FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Squints at this app I am sorry her history is atrocious... Also, I am hopefully bringing her in after she gets stabbed, so is it alright if she's bleeding and injured and stuff if/when she arrives...